Friday, February 23, 2007

Dosa kai Curry [Huli Mensina Kudilu]

Here is a typical Dakshina kannada recipe which i would like to share with you all.Me and everyone in our family simply love this recipe.Believe it my friends this tastes so good that once you taste it feel like preparing it often .This is a simple recipe with very few ingredients.This tastes good with rice roti or even dosa idli or such other dishes.

Ingredients:----------Dosa kai- 1 medium sizecoconut -1/2 cupTamarind - 1big rasberry sizeDry chillies-8 or as per tasteTurmeric- 1/2 tspSalt-1.5 tspGarlic- 5-6 clovescurry leaves-5-6 leavesMustard-1 tspOil-1 tspJaggery-1 tsp[grated/powdered]Method:---------1.Chop up the dosa kai and add little water and cook with a pinch of salt ,chilly powder and turmeric powder.2.Take coconut,tamarind,turmeric and dry roasted chillies and make a smooth paste adding enough water.3.Then add the paste to cooked vegetable and season with salt ,add jaggery , bring to a proper boil.4.Then in a small paan add oil and roast the garlic till it turns golden brown.5.Now add mustard and a broken dry chillly and curry leaves and wait till it splutter and then add this to the curry with the garlic and bring to a boil.6.Serve hot with rice and jackfruit papad at the side .This is really the great combination and the way how my mom used to serve .Hmmm yummy.The combination is mindblowiny .Really try it yourself.

Hi again Soumya, what a lovely looking meal! I have two questions if you don't mind :)Dosa kai - is that the same yellow cucumber dosakaya? I've just discovered that vegetable. Also, can jackfruit papad be purchased, or only homemade? Thanks!

I just didnt know wat to cook for dinner i wanted something really quick with a veg in dinner, it was already 10:30 and I accidently came across this recipe...and I loved it ..its yum though I didnt have jackfruit papad to go with it ..thank you

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About Me

I am a ayurvedic doctor by profession.
Currently busy with a super naughty kid who just turned four. Cooking is my hobby . Love to play with different spices and new alterations to the same old classics.